Elon Musk has already made the traditional Twitter logo disappear. As of this Monday, July 24, the blue bird has been eliminated, as its owner had announced this weekend. The renewed image chosen to represent the social network is a white X on a black background. In this way, Musk gets rid of the symbol that has represented the brand since its inception in 2006.
The letter X has been present in Elon Musk’s business and business life in the past: X.com was the original name of Paypal and is in his company SpaceX, but also in the name of his son who was born in 2020. Now, the businessman incorporates Twitter under the umbrella of the X with his new image.
This novelty that has impacted Twitter users this Monday is not the only one that has been launched in recent days. The social network will implement a new measure to prevent the amount of ‘spam’ sent within the platform, imposing a daily limit on direct messages that unverified accounts can send to other users of the application.
How to send direct messages on Twitter
Elon Musk, owner of the platform, has changed the way direct messages work. A few days ago a new model was introduced in which only messages from users who are followed will reach the main inbox, while all other messages, even those from verified accounts, will be received as message requests.
Although the management of the social network has not clarified what will be the number of direct messages that an unverified user will be able to send once the new restriction is applied, they have urged their customers to subscribe to Twitter Blue, the paid version of the platform with which anyone can get the blue ‘tick’ that shows they are verified on their profile.
Advantages on Twitter for paid users
It should be remembered that the paid version of the social network allows you to create folders of saved items and options such as writing ‘tweets’ of up to 25,000 characters in length, editing them up to five times within 30 minutes and inserting NFT images in the profile.
Finally, the social network has indicated that, with the implementation of the new configuration in the message tray, it has registered 70 percent less spam in DMs compared to the week in which these changes were announced.
On the other hand, the company announced a few days ago that its main objective was to continue reducing unwanted and infringing content, that although it would not prohibit them to promote freedom of expression on the platform, it would limit its scope.
Since the launch of Freedom of Speech Not Reach, in November 2022, more than 700,000 tweets had been successfully capped for violating their community guidelines. More specifically, for going against their hateful conduct policy.
